Although it was possible just a few years ago to site down and make a website without paying much attention to its design, that is no longer true. There are too many issues about visual design, usability, and other key points to leave them to chance. I highly recommend that you spend some time thinking about the design of your site before you create the pages. Once you get even partially locked into a particular design it can be difficult to change, even when the Web is so flexible.

This assignment is meant to induce you to consider some major issues in designing your instructional website. To complete it, I would like you to produce two things:

A table that lists your major instructional goals for the site. These should have been produced in your Analysis and are the major skills and knowledge that you want the students to gain from the site. For each of these goals, I would like you to list what you will provide to students to help them achieve those goals: The Information you will give them. The Interactions you will offer them (with the content, with each other, and with the instructor). The Connections you will make to other sites (you should list actual sites here).

A structure diagram of your site, showing the home page, the major pages linked to it, at least some of the pages linked to them, and at least some of the cross links.

In FrontPage 2002: A Guide for Educators and Trainers by Ingram and Watson, see Part 1, Chapters 3 and 4.

Visual Design

Navigation Design

Usability Design

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